Category: Eye on Canada

Eye on Canada

by Ian Madsen | Feb 7, 2026

Canada does not lack the tools to grow faster than the U.S. It lacks the will to use them

Alberta talks up free enterprise, but its treatment of renewable energy tells a very different story

Bill 201 would have repeated the Notley-era minimum wage policy that led to declines in youth employment

Ontario is expanding private surgical care while hospitals struggle with staffing levels and patient loads

Fear of repercussions is driving people away from participating in public debate in Alberta

What looks like a far-off political mess is exposing how vulnerable Canada really is, especially on energy

The expanded GST credit offers short-term relief but not lasting food affordability

Sweden responded to public disorder with a policy change. Canada responds with political paralysis

For years, Canada relied on the U.S. to take its oil. Now that bet is coming back to haunt us

Scott Moe and Danielle Smith responded very differently to Mark Carney’s trade agreement with China

Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I… Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability

A web of regulations, compliance costs, carbon pricing and interprovincial trade barriers is quietly pushing food prices higher

Canada keeps trying to regulate its way out of a housing shortage. Argentina tried something else, and the rental market improved